A social negotiation of hope: male West African youth, ‘waithood’ and the pursuit of social becoming through football
This paper examines the present-day perception among boys and young men in West Africa that migration through football offers a way to achieve social standing and improve one’s life chances. More specifically, we use the case of aspirant young Ghanaian footballers as a lens to qualify recent concept...
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2017
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/24181 |
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